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You're welcome for the self-promotion.

I feel that telling people to just blaze through functional programming is silly, as completely understanding CS roots (instead of sticking to today's easy languages) and understanding all the programming paradigms are important.

Good luck with that shamelessly using networks crap. It makes friends I'm sure.

That's the point. If they were doing their job and interrogating well as well as investigating well they'd catch them all just like Sabu. Unfortunately they're not and it's easier to offer a plea deal after a short period of intimidation so they do that. I think they should all pay, but this way they just abuse something built into the system that was made as an incentive for people they didn't think they COULD catch otherwise.

Thanks for recognizing one of the biggest downfalls of it. They could be opening the Apple platforms for massive "protect yourself" scare sales.

This is a great step. I am personally pretty hateful of Apple's decisions as far as hardware lockdown and restrictive use, but it's a tradeoff they offer customers and many consider it a good deal.

That aside, being more security minded as opposed to claiming immunity for marketing purposes is a fantastic move and one to be applauded by the tech community.

Sweet, hey I'm going to post a few games coming out soon that I hope they get adequate funding too.

First is Anarchy Reigns, being published by Platinum. Sega's shaky on US releases of games like this, so if you guys would self-hype and pre-order I'd like it a lot.

Also...I may or may not be a Platinum fanboy/employee trying to push viral status.

Just as much as the game itself, and patches to it. Nothing is that tentative. Once they give up some, they set a precedent.

When they call Anonymous a hacking collective, you know they're either too stupid, or too corrupt to say it like it is.

They're just a bunch of stupid kids, and I wouldn't label what Anonymous as a whole is doing as hacking regardless of how you painted it. Lulzsec on the hand...are a bunch of kids who learned TRICKS before they gained the knowledge that comes with it.

After years of learning and you get to a point of finding exploits yourself, you understand at this point WHY doing things is a bad idea.

They skipped the learning phase and just learned some stupid tricks that allowed them to do a lot of damage while knowing little.

There was a slip which led to his capture. Instead of paying the unfettered price for the crimes he committed, he ratted out his friends in a blatant abuse of the system in order to lessen his punishment.

The lesson for today kids, is never commit a crime alone, so you have someone to rat out on for that plea deal!

Thanks for posting a link to your own basic html how-to on hacker news.

I wish I could downvote.

Let us hope the community is smarter than to support this self-serving, pointless endeavor.

Thanks for spamming hacker news with multiple of the same article. I hope your karma rating is worth the damage it does to the community.

I fully agree, but unfortunately us hacker-kind are no longer the norm nor the majority here. It's all startups and tons of people with business degrees.

Technical papers get downvotes while people's blog posts about how to hire/fire people get upvoted.

You mistake my use of anticipated. I agree with you, I meant the change was anticipated as in "It was expected to happen". It was in the cards to happen eventually, whether it was intelligent or not.

Returning null in the math library at all just seems counter-intuitive.

I think the guy wasn't thinking the situation through entirely, but someone of (relative respect I suppose, creator of PHP is still the creator of something widely used) respect shouldn't be acting like this. It's always a shame to see people who have promise and talent show how childish they CAN act. Having his underling (someone who works on his language of no known note) make a smartassed response was in turn also pointless and negative whether he requested/urged it passively or not.

This stuff happened over 2 years ago, and what he was referring to was an ANTICIPATED change sir.

Not one he'd run into at the time, since it had yet to be changed to something random and unexpected.

Ah, when stackexchange and hacker news become "halp google 4 me plz"

Craigslist does not allow scraping. Beg for help and for support for breaking their rules elsewhere. This is Hacker News, not "help me retain a business model after I broke rules" central. You could alternatively hire people to spam them with nice requests to reconsider.

Craigslist does not allow scraping. Beg for help and for support for breaking their rules elsewhere. This is Hacker News, not "help me retain a business model after I broke rules" central.

You could alternatively hire people to spam them with nice requests to reconsider.

Thank you. He wrote a blog post about turning down a profitable offer in order to keep his semi-profitable current scheme as well as choices he made on how to represent himself.

We are reading about this here on hacker news because he's being promoted here to compensate for that lost money.

That's wonderful. Whoever posted this, thanks for wasting my time. If it was the author, you truly need to get a degree in management because you're adept at wasting technical people's time.

How often is this guy going to keep posting his own articles on here? It seems that almost as often as he WRITES articles they are posted here.

Protip: None are really very good.

But they own Java.

I'm sorry, but as a Java developer seeing Oracle pick it (anything Java) up like a dead fish and try to see who they can smack big money out of is horrifying.

It goes against the culture of Java that I'm familiar with. I've been learning other languages on the JVM for the express purpose of being ready to jump ship if I need to with those other languages. (Jython can jump to Python, JRuby to Ruby, Java to C#/C++, and Scala can be mapped to something I'm sure).

I'm a skeptic, so I'm inclined to agree. At the same time I'd like to say that we should give it a bit and see where they go with it. Google hasn't been one to remove value that I'm aware of.

Definitely. I hope someone figures out an unintrusive way to monetize IM services so we can see a variety of inspired IM clients/platforms instead of the same dingy things repeated.

A quick, dirty review of some spinoff videogame that isn't complete yet (review of early demo).

Yeah, this is relevant to hackers/programmers/startups/tech industry general.

Oh my, some mix of mature and immature adults find it easier to poorly communicate than to properly and patiently communicate.

They are also in a particular profession. Let's add gender for no particular reason. This doesn't belong here.

Linkbait.

Accurate results have so many metrics that it's specific to your specific tasks so your goal of a comparative chart is hopeless, unfortunately.

Also, this is probably one of the biggest cancers to HN. People writing low-quality articles, then posting it here themselves.

Are you points-farming, or are you just self-promoting? Either way you're abusing a network for mutual interest for self-serving purposes.

While it is a very broken analogy, after reading your post I did get a better understanding for what he was going for and it gained a bit of entertainment and mild insight value. Thank you.

He's been secretly reprogramming and binding parts of himself in a new form of encrypted-typed FORTRAN 77? OH GOD.

Skynet is here everyone.

Anytime I'm going to poke into a topic I like to nab one of the Head First books. They're a fast, easy way to learn a topic and after I'm done with it and into it deeply I'll find a dry reference.

The Pragmatic Programmer Meta-programming at it's finest. Be a better programmer.

Joel on software blog: Here's an example post. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

There's quite a bit to learn in there.

Many other books available free online. Primarily I suggest you read to an end, and as you get to a stagnation point you alternate between reading to learn new technologies or languages and reading to improve yourself as a programmer.

Why is this posted on Hacker News? It has nothing to do with the tech industry.

Back whence ye came nessie!